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HYDERABAD: A local court on Thursday put the hearing of arguments on framing of charges against former Chairman of Satyam Computers B Ramalinga Raju and nine other accused in the multi-crore accounting scam in the IT firm to August 24. The CBI informed the XXI Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate court, specifically on its allegations mentioned against Satyam accused in two main chargesheets besides the supplementary chargesheet....

Once in six weeks or so, I visit a hair-cutting saloon nearer my office and farther away from home. These visits are invariably on a Sunday, my weekly off. If the saloon is near my office, it's because both the place where I work and the barber's shop which I frequent are centrally located. Besides, I find this saloon far more compatible than other barber shops. The choice has nothing to do with the proximity to the office. In any case, I lack the temerity of the youthful office-goer who, when asked by his boss how he dared to have a hair-cut during office hours, replied, "But it also grows during office hours!"

NEW DELHI: India on Tuesday said that Pakistan was failing miserably in controlling terrorism by categorising terrorists as "good" and "bad" and that it needed to deal with the terror issue in an evenhanded manner. "Pakistan is failing miserably and they are trying to say that there are good terrorists and there are bad terrorists, which is wrong. "I think they have to deal with an entire spectrum of terrorism in an evenhanded manner," minister of state for Defence M M Pallam Raju told reporters here on the sidelines of a seminar.

HYDERABAD: With the Satyam issue rocking the Andhra Pradesh assembly, the Congress government virtually conceded defeat in handling the politically sensitive case. Chief minister Y S Rajasekhara Reddy sought a probe by the CBI into the Satyam scam and the software firm's operations in around 60 countries. "It would be appropriate if the CBI takes over the investigations into the Satyam scam, so that coordination between various agencies, including Satyam's overseas operations, can be achieved," the chief minister said in a letter to PM. The communication was sent few hours after Reddy's rival and Telugu Desam head N Chandrababu Naidu alleged that Raju funded the businesses of the chief minister's son Jaganmohan Reddy.

Cancer, TB, plague, cholera...There's never been a dearth of killer ailments in Bollywood's plotpourri of tearjerkers. But there's never been anything quite as convenient as a heart attack to knock off a character and bring out the hankies. Back in the Sixties-Seventies, it was inevitably used to bump off 'Daddy' when the baraat left the mandap for want of dowry or when the daughter became pregnant out of wedlock. One of its most popular victims was a shawl-draped Nazir Hussain (not the producer-director)

NEW DELHI: Making it clear that the Centre will not come in the way of DU from introducing the four-year undergraduate course, the government today said it will look into the concerns expressed by some sections but the momentum generated towards its implementation should not be derailed. Any decision on differing the programme by a year will be left to the Delhi University to decide as it is an autonomous institution, the government clarified. "We should not be seen as dictating them or question their wisdom.

AHMEDABAD: Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi has nothing to do with the FIR filed against suspended IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt and his subsequent arrest, government pleader said today during hearing on the latter's bail plea. The Sessions Judge V K Vyas , hearing Bhatt's bail plea, deferred the matter till tomorrow when government is likely to respond to the argument made by Bhatt's lawyer I H Syed today. Special Public Prosecutor(SPP)

NEW DELHI: Fraud-hit IT giant Satyam Computer's new chief executive has told the company's 50,000 employees he is confident the company "can accomplish the impossible" and get itself back on the rails. "I have no misgivings about the enormity of the task in front of us but together with my colleagues, I am confident we can accomplish the impossible," A.S. Murty said in a Webcast to employees Friday. Murty, a company veteran, was plucked from the ranks Thursday by the board named by the government after founder and ex-chief executive B. Ramalinga Raju confessed he fiddled the financial books for years.

Mumbai: The murky Satyam saga has put PE fund Infinite India, which has invested Rs 600 crore in Maytas Properties, in a fix. With interest in Maytas not playing up to expectations , this fund is examining a number of options. Among the options being examined includes a legal recourse . Circa February 2008: Infinite India Investment Management, an equal JV between Nimesh Kampani's JM Financial and US-based SRS Fund, invested in Maytas Properties, the Raju family's privately-held company.